Apple applies for touchscreen Mac patent
A recent patent application filed on behalf of Apple describes technology for controlling a touchscreen Mac tablet with iPhone-like gestures and controls.

Google’s Historical Data Patent, Part 1 - Freshness
The historical data patent is important because it discusses a large number of techniques that a search engine might use in fighting “spamming techniques” that might artifically “inflate” the rankings of web sites, and it works to ...

Apple MultiTouch Laptop patent once again heralding a MacTab?
Apple Insider is reporting that Apple has applied for a patent for a multi touch screen interface for laptop computers. This move makes the long awaited, and bi-annually rumored, MacTablet computer one step closer. ...

Microsoft, Nikon sign patent-sharing deal
Nikon will compensate Microsoft in the cross-licensing deal, which the companies say will improve new consumer electronics products and features.

No, Seriously: Microsoft Patents Page Up & Page Down
Microsoft has applied for and received a patent (US Patent #7415666) that essentially patents “Page Up/Page Down” functionality. The patent (Timothy D Sellers, Heather L. Grantham, Joshua A. Dersch) that was filed in March 2005 is yet ...

Microsoft and the "Pg Up/Pg Dn" Patent Squabble
Kevin Maney reveals: Microsoft got flak on the Web when GigaOm discovered a patent granted to Microsoft that seems to say Microsoft owns the invention of the "Pg Up" and "Pg Dn" function on just about every computer. ...

Apple files Mac Tablet patent — let the rumours begin!
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Apple Multi-Touch Patent suggests next-gen MacBook Tablet interface
Updated Apple patents documenting how the company envisages larger-scale multitouch displays reacting to all fingers of both of a user’s hands have added further fuel to the suspicion that a MacBook Tablet is in development. ...

Leaked Apple Patent Filing is Full of New Multitouch Tech For a ...
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Patent Reform Touches DNC in Denver
Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., told a crowd in Denver on Tuesday that it is crucial for Congress to pass legislation to update the US patent system next year -- even if the measure is a scaled back version of the broad, controversial language ...

CDC & NIH file patent, claim ownership of bird flu virus
In a development that is likely to raise more pressing questions about reform of the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN), an international patent application has surfaced in which the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) ...

How are Engineering Librarians Using Patent Information?
A few months ago I surveyed my fellow academic engineering librarians to find out how they were using web-based patent databases in their day-to-day work with students and faculty. Patent literature has had a role in engineering ...

> Microsoft patents ‘Page Up’ and ‘Page Down’
The software giant applied for the patent in 2005, and was granted it on Aug. 19. US patent number 7415666 describes “a method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page ...

> Microsoft patents ‘Page Up’ and ‘Page Down’
The patent covers technology that allows physicians to more easily-thread a catheter into a blood vessel during angioplasty, the medical procedure used to unblock veins and arteries in the event of a heart attack. ...